Profile

Edward Marchant, Adjunct
Lecturer in Public Policy, teaches courses on real estate
development and finance and on the development, financing, and
management of affordable housing. He also serves as a faculty
member in Harvard’s Executive Education programs sponsored by the
Kennedy School, the Graduate School of Design, and the Divinity
School. As a real estate professional working at The Community
Builders, Inc., and later at John M. Corcoran Co., Marchant was
actively involved in the development, financing, construction, and
management of mixed-income housing, offices, and R&D real
estate assets for more than 20 years. An independent real estate
advisor since 1990, his clients include nonprofit and for-profit
developers and investors, higher-education institutions,
foundations, and governmental housing agencies. Much of his
consulting work focuses on the development of mixed-income housing.
Marchant is a graduate of Cornell University (BA in government) and
Harvard Business School
(MBA).

Courses

Fall

SUP-665Real Estate Finance and Development Fundamentals for Public and Private Participants